![]() ![]() I constantly reassure her I’m doing fine – and here I am writing this article when I have two others this week on top of all my other work and assignments. Our lovely opinions editor, Youmna, regularly keeps me in check to make sure I don’t have a breakdown by spreading myself too thin. They say I’m overworked, over-stressed, and am generally doing too much. ![]() On top of that, I regularly contribute to sections within the paper other than my own.Ī lot of people in my life – family, friends, peers, coworkers, basically everyone – worry that I’m going to soon suffer a burnout. From last summer to present, I’ve barely had time off: I went from the fall semester, to winter, to a summer semester intensive, then an internship and a job, to now back in school full time while holding down three jobs. This past year has honestly been one of the most emotionally draining. Now in my third year, I have something else to add to this stream of articles about balance in life. I was literally in a perpetual state of stress and anxiety and admitted that it was easier said than done. In my second year, I called myself out for being a hypocrite because I had completely gone against my own advice and had a terrible work-school-life balance. In my first year at Concordia, I wrote about how it’s important to maintain a balance between work, school, and a social life, and how you can’t do better than your best. Why am I “fine,” you ask? Hi, my name is Kayla-Marie Turriciano, and I take on too many projects at once (as seen in my Twitter bio), and am definitely not in over my head. Also a plausible comparison is me as Ross in Friends after having too many margaritas: “I’M FINE!” You know the meme of a dog in a room on fire, where the speech bubble says: “This is fine”? Yeah, that’s me, I’m the dog. ![]()
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